Capo shape question (Mc Morrow book ?)

[gordon stelter]

Will this also radically improve the tone of uprights:
V-ing the upper plate bridge to 1mm at top?
( besides providing a little more downbearing,
perhaps? ) I usually use wet and dry sandpaper for
this area. 
     Thump
--- Isaac OLEG <oleg-i@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> David,
> 
> Mc Morrow in what fabulous book ?
> 
> I use to shape (file and smooth) the Vbar with the
> frame reversed.
> I've never done it in the piano (Steinway pre 1984)
> without removing
> the frame, but I am afraid that will be necessary in
> that precise
> case, the few notes I made when changing strings
> where yet sounding so
> much better almost twice long of full sound.
> 
> Any good trick to obtain a good shape then.
> 
> I noticed that the Bosendorfer have a brass flat
> bar, and the treble
> is very poor on these pianos.
> 
> BTW is it about 1984 or 1985 that S&S Hamburg begin
> to harden their
> capo bars ? not really sure of the year.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Isaac OLEG
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : owner-pianotech@ptg.org
> > [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]De la part
> > de David Andersen
> > Envoye : samedi 7 septembre 2002 09:06
> > A : pianotech@ptg.org
> > Objet : Re: Capo shape question
> >
> >
> > >but capo badly shaped
> > >almost flat, no V shape or even reverse U shape,
> more a
> > large more or
> > >less round surface.
> >
> > In our experience (100+ pianos) "V-ing out" the
> capo bar is
> > a great way
> > to improve everything about the tone of the
> treble.  Read
> > Ed McMorrow's
> > fabulous book for a good technique......
> >
> > David A.
> >
> 


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